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jaylett replied on February 23, 2009 10:29 to the problem "Signing in with OpenID can result in a loss of your topic's details" in Get Satisfaction:

I just had this with adding a comment as well, although I'm not too fussed about that because it's only one text box (and I was warned, so I could copy it to the clipboard—that's a nice touch).

jaylett replied on February 23, 2009 10:27 to the question "Why does OpenID login sometimes claim I've input an invalid OpenID?" in Get Satisfaction:

That isn't really what I meant. What if an OpenID ceases to be valid (particularly an issue with delegation)? You really want to have two types of error in the OpenID process: known transient and unknown. Timeout is a known transient. I'm not sure if there are any others, so it might be easier to just catch timeout separately and have a message for that.

jaylett asked a question in Dopplr on January 30, 2009 01:21:

How can I make upcoming calendar entries not appear as flights?

Upcoming calendar entries for things in London often don't appear as "London" (which is admittedly Upcoming's fault), but make a deeper issue obvious. The following trip was added automatically from my upcoming feed:

http://www.dopplr.com/trip/jaylett/53...

It is for the upcoming event:

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1457263

which upcoming thinks is in New Maldon, for reasons that will no doubt become obvious around the time of the Rapture. This isn't terribly relevant: what is is that Dopplr thinks I travelled there by plane.

Really, I want Dopplr to assume I travel by train to anywhere I don't add an explicit trip for, since that is most likely to be correct. In theory, I suppose, it could guess that I'm unlikely to travel by train to Moscow (although it's a toss-up for Paris or Brussels). I can't find an option that governs this, so I'm assuming there's either some magic or a system-wide default.

(It'd be nice if Dopplr let me know when it auto-added a trip on my behalf, so I can check it for accuracy. Again, there doesn't appear to be an option for this.)

jaylett asked a question in Get Satisfaction on January 27, 2009 17:46:

Why does OpenID login sometimes claim I've input an invalid OpenID?

Sometimes, when I try to log in with OpenID, I get an error saying it's invalid. Then I try again, and it works. The error message is incorrect and should instead say "we're having temporary problems with your OpenID, why not try again shortly?" or something.

I *assume* that what's happening is an HTTP timeout somewhere inside GetSatisfaction (because it's easiest to treat this the same as an HTTP error).

jaylett replied on January 27, 2009 17:42 to the problem "Detailed status view no longer shows the full tweet text when it is over 140 characters." in Twitter:

Either this should be fixed, or the truncation ellipsis should no longer link to the tweet so it's clearer no more is being stored.

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jaylett marked one of Rachel's replies in LOVEFiLM as useful. Rachel replied to the question "Does "Don't show me this title again?" mean I'm rating it as 0?".

jaylett replied on December 22, 2008 15:20 to the question "Does "Don't show me this title again?" mean I'm rating it as 0?" in LOVEFiLM:

That's helpful, thanks. Any chance it could be made obvious in the interface in some way? I can't imagine I'm the only person hesitant about this...

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jaylett asked a question in LOVEFiLM on December 19, 2008 22:48:

Does "Don't show me this title again?" mean I'm rating it as 0?

Under "rate this" for a title, there's an option marked "don't show me this title again". I want to do this in the case where I've already seen something (but not via Lovefilm) and don't particularly want to watch it again; however I may have liked it. The interface suggests any rating I give it will subsequently be ignored, which is certainly not what I want.

jaylett asked a question in LOVEFiLM on December 19, 2008 22:44:

Why do you recommend things already on my rental queue?

If I go to the recommendations hot list right now, four of the titles are already in my rental queue. To be fair to you, that makes them good recommendations; to be fair to me, they're a waste of space. It's not that this is a huge problem per se, but it definitely means I'm less likely to look at the suggestions.

jaylett replied on December 16, 2008 01:03 to the question "Can't account creation-via-openid be made simpler?" in Get Satisfaction:

Cool :-)

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jaylett asked a question in Get Satisfaction on December 15, 2008 13:38:

Can't account creation-via-openid be made simpler?

Why is creating an account with openid slower than creating an account without? I seem to have just been driven through the entire signup process, including email confirmation, which strikes me as overkill. Perhaps I've just been coddled by how easy stackoverflow.com makes this.

jaylett replied on December 15, 2008 13:30 to the problem "Why are UK prices nearly double US prices?" in Adobe:

This is why I only upgrade every two or three versions at most. Given the hoops they make you jump through to install the software (with the authorisation thing, which for CS1 never worked properly anyway) they really should be treating us as first-class Adobe citizens :-(

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